Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-08
THE IRISH CRIMES BILL
PASSES THE FIRST READING BY A
LARGE MAJORITY.
Parpell Makes One of the Best Speeches
OF His Iife-Excitement on the Con-
tinent Over the Expulsion of
German Legislat

LONDON, April In the House of Com
mons to night w. II. Smith, first lord of
the treasury, suggested that if the Irish
crimes bill be read the first TING tonight,
the second reading could be Naken up
Tuesday, and then there would be an in
2erval of week between the second read
ing and the going into committee. He
said ii was the imperative duty of the
government to insist that the House come
to an early decision on the principle of the
bill.
Referring to the land bill he said it was
of vital Importance that the government
use every effort to make the measure Il
law.
parnell, upon rising to resume the d. =
bate on the crimes bill was loudly cheered.
He said that with the production of the
land bill yesterday Parliament had been
put in possession of the complete plan of
the government i'll all its nakedness and
dishonesty The land bill had revealed
the extent of the plot and gravity of the
conspiracy through which the conserva.
tiVes and liberal unionistS intended to try
To coerce the tenants in Ireland into the
payment of impossible rents, and to COM
pei them to purchase their landlords in
terest at eXorbitant rates. If the House
should ever give the government
power thus to coerce the people
the result would most certainly
oe wholesale reputation involving
an immense loss to the British
taxpayers The government were press
ing on the scheme with indecent haste
They had refused to carry out the recon-
mendatons of the land commission. In
a justly regulated land purchase lay the
only hope of settling the land question
The National league had Ibeen called tyran-
l.,,t 3 b., f.Nf%
purely national body, the outcome of
genuine popular feeling and no branch of
the league had ever been known to exer-
else force in order to impress members.
Proceeding to discuss the provisions of
the bill Mr.. Parnell contended that the
able them to send political opponents to
prison for six months. No part of the
previous coercion acts had ever excited so
much distrust of English justice as the
proposal to change the venue of the trials
and bring Irishmen before special Eng
fish 5uries. The proposals meant reign
of judicial murders. 1t meant that all
hopes of better times which seemed dawn
ing upon Ireland would soon disappear.
He would still counsel the Irish people to
submit to injustice rather than retaliate
or do anything that might drive Gladstone
from their side, or increase his difficulties,
o. place him in a false position with the
liberals. Their battle was now won in
Ireland. There might be some suffering
and much tyranny yet to be endured, but
they could be as nothing compared with
that. He concluded by moving that the
House resolve itself into committee to con-
slider the state of Ireland
After some discussion Mr.. II. p O'Con-
nor moved to adjourn the debate which
was rejected by a vote of 36l to 254 The
motion for cloture was carried by a vote
OF 1851 to 253 and the first reading of the
bill was agreed to without division.
Comments on the Speech
LONDON, April l -Parnell's speech
which was one of the best he mas ever
made, was an unusually fiery peroration
He commenced to speak in low, solemn
tones that almost caused sensation.
Gladstone and the whole of the Opposi-
ton frequently applauded his remarks
The opposition consider Baltours case has
been pulverized by the speech.
PARIS, April IN Antoine, a protester
delegate to the Reichstag from Metz, has
been expelled by the German government
from Alsace Lorraine and conducted to
the frontier. The expulsion has caused a
profound sensation. 1t is regarded as a
fresh provocation intended to eXasperate
France and induce the French people to
commit some act of retaliation which
might be declared beyond federation. The
press with perfect unanlmity eXhort the
people TO MAINTAIN calm demeanor. 1t
IS reported that NJ. Antoine will not come
to Paris, but will 90 to Berlin by way of
Belgium, and insist upon taking the seat
IN the Reichstag to which he was elected